Korean Music of Some Textbooks for Multicultural Music Education in the U.S.A.

Since the early 1900s, the interests of culture, education, and music of immigrants have been increased in the U.S.A. Under this background, music classes in the school have been requested to serve the musical and cultural needs of immigrated students. For this reason, several scholars in music education have published various literatures on the teaching materials and approaches for the multicultural music education. The leading scholars of multicultural music education world published the teaching materials and approaches to introduce an exotic music and various music curricula. The Campbell’s literatures have been seriously considered as the precedent study on the roles and methods for the multicultural music education due to their unique accomplishment and reality for the multicultural music education. The following books which are related to multicultural music education also describe the methods and approaches for teaching Korean music as the part of East Asian Music. In this study, based on the above literature, we examine the method for explanation of Korean music and the approaches for teaching Korean music which have been established in the U.S.A. For this research, the literature is examined by the following three standards. Firstly, we investigate the repertoires for Korean music in the books since the early 20th century, Japan and Western culture have influenced on Korean music and culture. For the second, the approaches which were already established for teaching Korean music are explored. Lastly, the information, notation, and illustration for Korea and Korean music in the literature are examined. We may need to consider that these materials are appropriate to represent and understand Korean music correctly. Consequently, this study investigate that the Korean musical characteristics and the knowledge of Korean culture are properly understood by the multicultural music textbooks which are used for teaching Korean music in the U.S.A.